Sash-cord fastener.



PATENTED JULY 31, 1906.

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APPLICATION FILED NOV- 6, 1905.

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PATENTED JULY 31, 1906.

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UNITED STATES PATENT oFnIoE.

SASH-CORD FASTEN ER.'

' Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented July 31, 1 906.

Application filed November 6,1905. Serial No. 286-027.

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that we, WILLIAM LEAR. and WILLIAM FRANK LEAR, subjects of the King of Great Britain and Ireland, and residents of St. Lawrence Lane, Ashburton, in the county of Devon, En land, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Sash-Cord Fasteners, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to the attachment of sash lines or cords to the sash-stiles of sliding window or similar frames, the object being to provide means for securin the cords or lines so that they can be aflixe or disconnected without having to remove either the beads or the sashes, thus avoiding all damage to or marking of the paint or woodwork and reducing the breakage of glass to a minimum.

In the accompanying illustrations, Figure 1 is a front, and Fig.2 a back, geometrical view of the sash-line fastening as constructed for both the upper and lower sashes of sliding window-frames to which the same is shown applied to the stile of a sash. Fig. 3 repre sents a back elevation, Fig. 4 a front elevation, and Fig. 5 a plan view, of the fastening. Fig. 6 is a transverse section on line m as, Fig. 4, cord removed; and Fig. 7 shows a front elevation of fastening with the plate or cover removed in order to show the sash-line attached. Figs. 1 to 7 are shown full size.

The invention com rises a metal box A, Figs. 1 and 2, which is et into the stiles of the sash. This box is provided with a round hole B at the top and bottom to allow the fastening, by reversing the same, to be affixed on either style of sash and a hole 0 to take an ordinary screw when the sashes are hung with chains.

Integral with box A or suitably secured thereto are metal flanges, plates, or lugs D and'E, arranged at right angles to one another, provided with openings or holes to admit of screws being passed through to secure the fastening to the sashes, which are both let in flush with the stile of the sash.

The front flange, plate, or lug D, which is of any desired configuration, is provided with an oblong opening with a movable cover or plate F, (for access to box A,) in which is a hole G to admit of its being screwed to the stile of sash with an ordinary round-head screw G,

as shown, Fig. 6. The back flange, plate, or

lug E has a piece E, Figs. 1, 3, 4, and 6, left on in center to prevent cover or plate F being placed too far back.

The cords or lines are secured to one end of the weights (not shown) in the ordinary way.

Then the other end is passed down their respective grooves H (see Fig. 1) through the hole B into the box A, the cover or plate having been previously removed, then drawn out and tied in a knot and secured byplacing it in the box A, as shown, Fig. 7. The cover or plate F is then replaced.

Having now described our invention, what we claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

In a device of the character described, a

casing having an opening in one side and having a perforation in both its top and bottom, flanges carried by the sides of the casing extending beyond the same and arranged at right angles to each other, the flanges at the o ening in the side forming a guide, and a s ide for closing the opening in the side movable within said guide, said slide being provided with a perforation, said parts being combined, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof we have afiixed our signatures in presence of two witnesses.

WVILLIAM LEAR. WVILLIAM FRANK LEAR. Witnesses:

WILLIAM BENNETT SNELL, JOHN H. VINCENT. 

